Improvement in wash-boilers



i ,...lieitallaie .IOHN H. BURTIS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 83,251, dated October 20, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASH-Bomans.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and;melting part of the name.

To all whom 'it ma/y concern Be it known that I, JOHN H. BURTIS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a' certain new and useful Improvement in TashBoilers5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a'full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification, wherein- Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of said boiler, and

Figure 2 is a sectional plan of the same.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

Wash-boilers have before been made in which the water is caused to circulate upwards through tubes and descend through the clothes to a space below the clothes, and thence rise in consequence ofthe heat applied to the bottom, and flow up through saidtubes. In this character of boilers, the tubes become dirty, and there is no opportunity to remove the soapyand greasyaocumulation upon them, neither can the parts be wiped od to prevent rust.

The nature of my invention consists in removablev y division-plates, applied inside a wash-boiler to support the "clothes, and form circulating-water-ways between them and the wash-boiler, so that the water that is heated by iire applied to the bottom of the boiler, rises between the said movable division and the boiler, and ilows over the top of the clothes, returning to the bottom of the boiler and re-entering the space between such movable division and the boiler.

When the boiler is in use, 'the circulation of the hot water and suds is very rapid and ei'ective, and after the clothes-boiler has been used, the movable partition can be taken out and the whole ofthe parts wiped clean and dry on both sides of the sheets of metal that are employed.

In the drawing, ais the bottom, and b the sides of a wash-boiler of any desired size or shape; cis the cover of the same, and d d are the handles.

e and f are the movable partitions, formed vwith bottom portions, 2 2, resting upon supports 3 3, and side portions, 4 4, setting 'against the boiler' at their edges, but leaving a space between the side or end of the boiler and said division for the water to circulate as aforesaid; and at h h are deiiectors secured upon the inside of the boiler, to direct the water upon the upper part of the clothes, and prevent the Water boiling' over the edges of the vessel. By this arrangement and construction, the water passes in at the opening or mouth 5, and rises by the action of the heat, and passes out over the clothes from the mouth 6, I'prei'er that the edges of the partitions be bentdcwn, as shown, in order that ble, leaving the necessary size -of opening.

-The weight of the clothes will keep" the movable divisions e and'f in place while in use, and it will b evident that the portions 2 2 of said movable divisions might beperforated, although I prefer to form them as shown.

It will beevident that the movable divisions e and f might be made in one piece, or attached together, the necessary openings, being provided inthe' bottomportions, and, if desired, the deflectors h"h might be conn'ected to these divisions by stays or strips instead of being' soldered within the boiler, so that the whole might be lifted out of the boiler together.

' I am aware that hot water circulating up through a pipe .has been'employed ilrwashing; also that a movable bottomand tubes have been employed.

What Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent, is-

Ihe 4removable plates c f, applied to a wash-boiler, substantially as and for .the purposes specified.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my signature, this 27th day of June, A. I). 1868.

. JNO. H. BURTIS.

Witnesses: GHAs. H. SMITH, GEO. T. Pinamar.

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